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Has the Great Arms Race Moved into Space?
image via Wikipedia At the start of 2007, China took the first step in the international space arms race. On January 11, the Chinese launched a missile and successfully destroyed one of their satellites.
Continue reading...Japanese Space Beer: Taking “Lite” To a New Level
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Image from neebong Sapporo Holdings, proud manufacturers of an essential ingredient in sake bombs, have announced that they’re making an ambitious step to grow their brewery: beer from space.
Continue reading...Scientists Discover Youngest Supernova Ever
Thursday, May 15, 2008
NASA Photo via National Geographic In the life of the Milky Way, our galactic home, and the place where we can best study the makeup of the universe, we have only ever been able to observe a supernova that occurred in the late 17th century– just over 300 [...]
Continue reading...Vatican: God and Aliens Can Coexist
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Image from eddy13 The Vatican’s chief astronomer, Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, confessed in an interview that he saw no conflict between the religious doctrine he serves, and the scientific knowledge he peruses–including the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers.” He also stated that it remains entirely possible that humanity [...]
Continue reading...Huge Vegetables From Outer Space May End World Food Crisis
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Image from Ribbon Controller Now there’s a headline you don’t see every day and yet, while it’s probably calling back memories of “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” for an entire generation of corrupted American youth, it’s entirely true. The Chinese have begun growing their own version of genetically [...]
Continue reading...The Indestructibe Hard Drive: Survives 1200 Degrees C & Mach 25
Monday, May 12, 2008
Image from D’Amico Rodrigo In maybe the most impressive data-recovery task of all time, Jon Edwards has extracted the contents of a hard drive that was on-board the doomed Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, meaning that it survived the disintegration of the shuttle while it was 39 miles [...]
Continue reading...Canada To Save Earth From Asteroids
Friday, May 9, 2008
Because this probably hurt. Image from kevinzim Ah, Canada: Home of hockey night, tim bits, and the best hope our planet has of locating and killing asteroids before they can blot out life as we know it.
Continue reading...Physicists Create Universe Smaller Than a Marble
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Image from Pingnews At Lancaster University, they’re unraveling the secrets of how to build a universe. In fact, they have already formed one, or something very much like it. This scientific breakthrough lies in the bottom of a chamber no larger than your pinky finger, filled with helium [...]
Continue reading...We May Have Found Aliens, And Not Known It
Monday, April 21, 2008
Mankind has always been curious about the possibility that “we’re not the only ones in the universe.” A great deal of effort has been spent on the attempt to find extraterrestrial life. Unfortunately for us, we may not even know what we’re looking for. Image from Sea Frost
Continue reading...Soviet Space Shuttle Makes Record Trip
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
As the American Space Shuttle fleet grinds achingly towards retirement, it’s only fitting that the Soviet shuttle Buran would be making one of the longest journeys in its 20-year history. An engineering model abandoned in a park. Image from therefromhere on Flickr
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Monday, June 2, 2008
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